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Faith consists in believing when it is beyond the power of reason to believe.

Of all religions, the Christian should of course inspire the most tolerance, but until now Christians have been the most intolerant of all men.

Nothing would be more tiresome than eating and drinking if God had not made them a pleasure as well as a necessity.

Nothing can be more contrary to religion and the clergy than reason and common sense.

No problem can withstand the assault of sustained thinking.

Never argue at the dinner table, for the one who is not hungry always gets the best of the argument.

Let us read and let us dance - two amusements that will never do any harm to the world.

My life is a struggle.

Let us work without theorizing, tis the only way to make life endurable.

Men hate the individual whom they call avaricious only because nothing can be gained from him.

Meditation is the dissolution of thoughts in Eternal awareness or Pure consciousness without objectification, knowing without thinking, merging finitude in infinity.

Man is free at the moment he wishes to be.

Love is a canvas furnished by nature and embroidered by imagination.

Love has features which pierce all hearts, he wears a bandage which conceals the faults of those beloved. He has wings, he comes quickly and flies away the same.

Indeed, history is nothing more than a tableau of crimes and misfortunes.